Ashes to Ashes

You call me the Earth and I am your home

But I can't sustain all you people alone

I need your help, I need you to care

I don't need your trash scattered everywhere

I don't like complaining, but I have to say

You exploited and wasted my bounty away

Once I had grass, I had flowers and trees

Once I had animals, birds, bats and bees

Once upon a more glorious time

I birthed these lands and made them mine

I made them with rivers, lakes and streams

I even created you, with your dreams

I harbored and nurtured the life on my dune

I gave you seasons, I gave you the moon

And how did you creatures give back the gift?

You began desecrating, creating a rift

Where once I was whole

Now there is blight

See how the flames

Bathe the land with their light?

Flickering, flaming, destroying the homes

Of rodents, reptiles and fugitive gnomes

Rampantly, hungrily, chasing them down

Roiling and boiling and singeing the ground

Filling the air with billowing smoke

Causing my creations to suffocate, choke

With nowhere to run and nowhere to hide

Many of them have already died

Leaving their corpses all over my skin

Turning my bounty to chaos and din

Why do you do this so blatantly?

Don't you realize it isn't just me?

If I'm destroyed I can no longer strive

To keep all of you people alive.